The corner of Piedmont Avenue and West MacArthur Boulevard has been under construction for years. At 35,000 square feet, or roughly half the size of a football field, the triangular parcel was originally slated for a medical administrative building, according to the 2006 Kaiser Permanente Master Plan, the guiding document of the phased redevelopment of the Kaiser medical center campus.

Now, the corner remains in limbo, caught in the middle of a conflict involving neighborhood residents and landowner Kaiser Permanente, which now seeks to develop the corner into a private, fenced-off garden.